App of the Week: Buycott

App Name: Buycott Price: Free Available Platforms: iOS What does this app do? Chances are you like to know what’s in the food you eat and where the money you pay to buy that food goes. For instance, those tomatoes from the grocery store may come...

Photos: Facebook's IPO Anniversary

A history of Facebook in photos.

Dinos Dancing Across Google Hangouts?

Apparently at this week’s big I/O conference, Google didn’t show off all the fun features of the company’s new multiplatform text and video chat service: Hangouts. If you’ve been thinking your chats have been a little too text-heavy, you can now decorate them with some...

Toddler Reviews Google Glass

We’ve seen Michele Bachmann and a half-naked blogger wear Google Glass over the last couple of weeks. But those images don’t exactly warm your heart. But a two-year-old with the connected glasses on? That might be one of the cutest things you see on the Internet...

Congressmen Question Google Glass

Eight members of Congress have asked Google to answer questions about the privacy concerns around the new connected glasses.

'Smart Rifle' Begins Shipping to Owners

"Even a novice shooter can become an elite long-range marksman in minutes."

Google Glass Can Add Facebook, Twitter

New apps turn Google Glass into the ultimate social media gadget.

Very Smart Phone Reimagines 'Talk to the Hand'

TOKYO – It’s not exactly the next big smartphone, but if you spend one too many hours searching for that misplaced iPhone, this could be even better. Researchers at the University of Tokyo are developing a system that puts the mobile phone on the palm...

Microsoft Hides Job Posting in Bing

Microsoft has posted a sort of secret job listing inside the code of Bing.com

Redesigned Subaru Forester Ranks High in Front Corner Crash Test

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released new crash test results for 13 small sport utility vehicle models. According to the institute, it was the first time that small SUVs — some of the most popular cars on the road these days — were...

Map Shows Hotspots for Hate Tweets

A new Twitter study by assistant professor Monica Stephens and Humboldt State University tried to measure of hate via tweets in the United States.

Google Not Done Fighting Social Giants

With new photo editing and enhancement features, Google hopes its Google Plus social network will attract more users.

$10K for Apple's 50 Billionth App

Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, hit the app jackpot Tuesday afternoon when he pressed the download button on a word game app called Say the Same Thing and sent Apple over the 50 billion app download mark, winning the $10,000 prize. Earlier this month Apple...

Google's New Features: Music, Hangout, Photo Editing

Google today announced several new software features at its Google I/O conference in San Fransicso that spanned from a brand new music streaming service to new ways to "explore" on its popular Google Maps app.

Google to Bring Hangouts to Glass

During a three-hour keynote at its Google I/O conference, Google didn’t talk at all about Glass, its glasses that overlay digital information in the physical world. However, the company did talk about some features that will be coming to the digital glasses. At the event,...

Photos: Google I/O in Photos

At Google's big developer's conference, the company announced a new music and chat service and updates to Google Maps.

Live Coverage: Google Kicks Off Showcase

What new Android features does Google have up its sleeve? Is a new Nexus 7 tablet with a higher resolution screen on the way? How does the company plan to give Google Plus a boost to compete against Facebook and Twitter? Will it also take...

What to Expect at Google's Event

Google's big I/O conference is this week. Here's what you should expect.

Google CEO Talks Voice Problems

For the first time, Google CEO Larry Page opens up about his voice problems, explaining in a post that he is recovering from vocal cord paralysis.

Big Google Announcements Coming

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is gearing up for its annual Google I/O developers conference today, and like in years past it is set to announce a series of new software and hardware products. During the three-hour long keynote, which is scheduled to begin at 9...

Windows 8.1 Will Be a Free Update

Microsoft will release Windows 8.1 as a free update to Windows 8 later this year.

Nokia Launches Metal Lumia

Nokia focuses in on the camera with its latest Windows Phone.

Microsoft Hopes to Lure Gmail Users

Microsoft is giving Gmail users another reason to switch to Outlook. It's added Google Chat support to Outlook.com.

Search 'Atari Breakout' in Google

Google has brought the arcade right to your image search window with its newest celebratory Easter egg game. It’s the 37th birthday of the classic Atari game Breakout, and if you type “Atari Breakout” as a Google image search query, you can play the 1970s...

Gingrich Wants to Rename Cell Phone

Newt Gingrich is “really puzzled.” No, not about whether he will run for office again — he’s got fairly clear answers to that — but about cell phones. Well, not about the devices themselves, he is more puzzled about what to call them now that...

Amazon Introduces Virtual Currency

Amazon has launched its Amazon Coins, its own virtual currency for the Kindle Fire. Five dollars buys 500 Amazon coins.

Hot off the Grill: Test Tube Burger

A Dutch scientist hopes he’ll change minds about the viability of test tube meat when his first genetically engineered hamburger, made from billions of stem cells, is served hot off the grill. Mark Post, the head of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has...

Astronaut Returns to Earth a Rocker

Today Chris Hadfield returns to Earth as the brave outgoing commander of the International Space Station. But he also returns as a rock star. Literally. On Sunday, the Canadian astronaut released a YouTube video of him performing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in space. In the...

Mysterious Seahorse's Armor May Help Solve Engineering Problems

The mythical seahorse, a tiny fish that swims in a vertical position and looks a lot like a miniature horse, has astounded researchers by its ability to withstand crushing forces that would destroy nearly every other living creature. And it just may help the researchers borrow from the world of biology to solve some really tough problems in the world of engineering.

Atmosphere's CO2 Hits Unseen Level

On Thursday, CO2 in the atmosphere surpassed a new milestone.